Angels’ Cup offers a few different subscription plans, and this is a review of the Black Box, which includes four 2.75 oz. samples of coffee. (FYI- 2.75 oz. of coffee is about enough to brew a small/medium sized pot from each sample.)

I’ve previously reviewed the other Angels’ Cup subscription plans: All Stars and Cupping Flight. The Cupping Flight includes smaller samples of each coffee, and the All Stars box includes one 12 oz. bag of coffee. You can find reviews of both the All Stars box and the Cupping Flight here.

Angels’ Cup includes individual tasting cards that match up with each of the coffees they send.

To guide your tasting, you can use either the provided tasting cards or the Angels’ Cup App.

My husband and I always do the Angels’ Cup blind tasting together, and we have a lot of fun comparing notes and seeing if our tasting notes match up with those of the Angels’ Cup experts. For this coffee, which Angels’ Cup describes as having flavors of milk chocolate, melon, and baklava, we couldn’t have disagreed with the experts more. Neither of us could pick out any of the flavors mentioned on the tasting card, and we both found it to be a little too sour for our liking. We quickly moved on to the next one!

Luckily, we had better luck with this coffee. It was smoother and creamier than the first one, with notes of fruit and spice. (Angels’ Cup recommends looking for blueberry, grape, peach, vanilla, and cinnamon, which lined up pretty closely with our notes.) We have just enough of this sample left for a second pot, and I’m looking forward to brewing it up tomorrow morning!

For all of this month’s samples, we used a Chemex for brewing, and I think the extraction for this sample was just a little too light. (I’ll have to tweak the amount of water the next time I make it.) Still, it ended up being one of our favorites this month. It’s very smooth, with some really tasty caramel flavors.

Last up this month is another coffee from Peixoto Roasters, and unfortunately, it’s another coffee that both my husband and I weren’t very fond of. Angels’ Cup describes the flavor as being nutty with notes of green apple, orange, cherry, and marshmallow, but we both found it unpleasantly sour.

Verdict: As always, I had a lot of fun with this Angels’ Cup box! Neither my husband nor I were in love with all of this month’s coffees, but we still enjoyed doing the blind tasting and comparing notes. If you like sampling coffee from top roasters across the country, I can definitely recommend Angels’ Cup. They always send coffee with a light or medium roast (which is my preference), and I like how Angels’ Cup boxes are designed to guide you through the tasting process. At $21.99, this isn’t a high value subscription, but I do think Angels’ Cup sends great coffee and provides a unique experience. If you’re interested in sampling quality coffee from top third wave roasters, I can definitely recommend this subscription.

Are you a coffee lover? Will try out your blind tasting skills with Angels’ Cup?

Lindsey is a professional baker by day and a subscription box junkie by night. She first subscribed to Birchbox in 2013 and her addiction grew when she signed up for Graze, PopSugar, and Knoshy. Her favorite part about being a subscription box addict is discovering new products- especially gourmet goodies, beauty products, and kitchen tools!

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1 Comment

Donna
January 6, 2017 at 4:54 pm

Angels’ Cup is an excellent coffee sub and they have the best customer service!